[2.0 updated] Shmizz's hardcore perma-freeze guide

I think you can watch it now. Yeah I got 5link +2 staff but regal didnt hit. Gonna work towards better one, alltho getting those right colors is pain in the ass.


Also what about good rolls and using Taryn's Shiver?

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I think you can watch it now. Yeah I got 5link +2 staff but regal didnt hit. Gonna work towards better one, alltho getting those right colors is pain in the ass.


Also what about good rolls and using Taryn's Shiver?

taryn's shiver can be really good in parties, but solo it's kinda mediocre. I'd recommend your current staff over taryn's probably.
As for your gear, you might consider upgrading your chest/helm/boots so you can make room for maligaro's virtuosity if you still feel like you need damage. rings with cast speed and crit as well as amulets with both crit and crit multi will also be significant damage increases although they tend to be expensive

Hello Shmizz

First of all, thanks for this build, I never played dual totem before, and I must say it is quite fun ! (I am level 65) Had a lot of trouble passing through Daresso's Dream cruel with those awful beyond spawns, so I had to call the public for a portal. Other than that, no trouble at all, it is a beast against bosses and groups, quite impressive.

I am runing dual curses, and was wondering, I leveled with this helmet :


Do you think it is still useful after level 50/60 ? Or should I go for a rare defensive helmet ? The damage boost is nice but I feel this is more for three or four curses. I also just started using power charge on crit on a five link chest so I lost the +1 on curses.

Thx for the help, can't wait to get a six linked +2 staff ! (I am farming the divination card in merciless, but not lucky this far)

Awesome build, I always loved Freeze Pulse but could not find a good use for it !

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DjParagon wrote:

Do you think it is still useful after level 50/60 ? Or should I go for a rare defensive helmet ? The damage boost is nice but I feel this is more for three or four curses.

I think you're totally right, you really need a good number of curses to make efficient use of that helmet, so it depends on your playstyle really. If you don't plan to go tri or quad curse in the near future, go ahead and replace it with a better helm of any stats you feel you are lacking

Thx a lot !

I was actually lacking a bit of lightning res and using a Topaz, so there we go ! ^^
Might be easier to get a six linked +2 staff in standard now too.

This might be a silly question with an obvious answer, but I can't figure it out at the moment.

I'm running with a friend of mine that has gone full curse/aura support for me and another friend just for fun. Because of this, I haven't had to bother specing into curses at all. However, despite him running assassin's mark, I can't generate any power charges at all. Any idea why?

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klockquirk wrote:

I'm running with a friend of mine that has gone full curse/aura support for me and another friend just for fun. Because of this, I haven't had to bother specing into curses at all. However, despite him running assassin's mark, I can't generate any power charges at all. Any idea why?

if you're using totems to get kills on enemies cursed with assassin's mark it tries to grant the power charges to the totem, but totems cannot have charges of any kind so no charges are granted. If you want the charges yourself, you have to get the killing blow yourself.

ahh, alright, that makes sense, thank you for clearing that up

Hallo,

thanks for the guide.
I have two questions.

What does this "power charge" do? I thought i will never get one, only my totems.

And what is better
"adds xx - yy cold damage to spells" or "+xx% cold damage to spells"?
If i am right, basedamage is better for fp?

Thank you.

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the_Arkain wrote:

What does this "power charge" do? I thought i will never get one, only my totems.

And what is better
"adds xx - yy cold damage to spells" or "+xx% cold damage to spells"?
If i am right, basedamage is better for fp?

1) Power charges give you 50% increased crit chance each. If you link power charge on critical to any skill and get a crit with that skill you have a chance to gain a power charge. your totems base their crit chance on your character's crit chance, so if your character has power charges your totems will crit more often. Totems themselves cannot have power charges, so you never want to put power charge on crit linked to your totem spell. In this case I use ball lightning and I self cast it, meaning not using a totem, so I gain the power charges myself and thus increase the crit chance of my totems.

2) Neither flat damage nor percent damage will always be better than the other, it completely depends on the numbers. Due to the way diminishing returns work, if you have a huge amount of flat damage, percent damage will scale your damage much higher than getting more flat damage. If you have a huge amount of percent increased damage, getting more flat damage will scale it much higher. In general with freeze pulse I would say getting more flat damage is usually better because flat damage is hard to come across and percent damage can be obtained all over the tree and on gear really easily, but it is completely dependent on the numbers.